Keycodes and keyboard event compat

[Colin Clark]

Hi all,

As a follow-up to this, we've incorporated these commonly-used  
keycodes for keyboard accessibility as a set of constants hanging off  
the top-level fluid JavaScript object. I have no idea why jQuery  
doesn't offer these out of the box.

<code snippet>
fluid.keys = {
     UP: 38,
     DOWN: 40,
     LEFT: 37,
     RIGHT: 39,
     SPACE: 32,
     ENTER: 13,
     TAB: 9,
     CTRL: 17
};
</code snippet>

Next step is to create a set of functions that will listen to keyboard  
events and handle basic keyboard accessibility for free. I've been  
cooking up just such a library on recent flights and in between  
meetings and conferences. :) Simon Bates has provided with with  
invaluable advice and feedback. We'll have something available as a  
jQuery plugin early in the new year, which I hope we can contribute to  
the wider jQuery community.

Colin

On 17-Dec-07, at 12:25 PM, Eli Cochran wrote:

> Here is the document online that Colin mentioned that covers the  
> cross browser keycodes and the way that keyboard events are handled  
> cross browser.
>
> http://unixpapa.com/js/key.html
>
> - Eli
>
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> Eli Cochran
> user interaction developer
> ETS, UC Berkeley
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Colin Clark
Technical Lead, Fluid Project
Adaptive Technology Resource Centre, University of Toronto
http://fluidproject.org